It's become clear to us in recent weeks that we need to improve our handling of late-game situations -- where blinds are high, players are fewer and you can't really wait for a big hand to come.
Thursday night at Lil Kim's Cove was an example. We had 8,500 chips after the one-hour break, but wound up folding two promising hands when the flop went against us. That led to this....
BLINDS: 500/1000
IN THE POCKET: 10-9 of clubs
With 4,500 chips left, we think for a moment about what to do with this. Hoping to get in small, we call. A couple of other players join in.
ON THE FLOP: 10h-9h-5d.
Not a perfect flop -- but at this point, it seems very good for us. A player ahead of us checks, then we push all-in with 3,500 left. A man to our immediate left calls. Everyone else folds.
"I have two pair," I say turning the cards over.
"I don't care," our opponent says. "I'm about to get you on the turn."
"Are you?" we say quietly.
ON THE TURN: Jack of hearts.
"There it is," our opponent says -- and he shows two hearts. He has an overpowering flush.
"Unless I can get a full house on the river," we note quietly.
ON THE RIVER: 6 of hearts.
Not tonight. We're out in about 26th place.
By the way, the man we thought pulled the scary stunt outside Soho confessed to it as we set up the poker tables tonight. "I was just kidding," he explained. We told him about our reasoning, which is posted below this. The man assured us he's NOT a criminal, but never really apologized.
MINISTRY MOMENT: When we win pots online, we increasingly are typing in three letters: PTL. So far, no one has asked for an explanation.
If you need one, think back about 20 years -- to the heyday of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Their "PTL Club" on television had some excesses, but they wound up being 20 years ahead of the texting wave. The letters stand for "Praise the Lord."
That phrase appears often in the Psalms. Consider this example from Psalm 135:3. "Praise the Lord: for the Lord is good...." If you have a good game at the poker table, or a good day in any walk of life, don't be afraid to give God praise for it.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 45 final tables in 109 nights (41.3%) - 10 cashes.
YAHOO POKER TOTAL: $13,816 - up $18.
NBC SPORTS POKER TOTAL: Five-player sit-n-goes - 31-36-10-6-8. Full tournaments - 24 final tables in 205 games (11.7%), 2 cashes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POKER TOTAL: Five-player sit-n-goes - 1-1-0-0-0. No full tournaments there yet.
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